Chinese symbol for “colic”
绞痛
jiǎo tòng
Traditional: 絞痛
sharp pain; cramp; griping pain; colic
The closest CC-CEDICT match for colic is 绞痛 (jiǎo tòng), defined as: sharp pain; cramp; griping pain; colic; angina, cf 心絞痛|心绞痛.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 绞痛.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绞刑 (絞刑) | jiǎo xíng | to execute by hanging |
| 绞死 (絞死) | jiǎo sǐ | to hang (i.e. execute by hanging); to strangle |
| 绞尽脑汁 (絞盡腦汁) | jiǎo jìn nǎo zhī | to rack one's brains |
| 绞杀 (絞殺) | jiǎo shā | to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting; (fig.) to snuff out |
| 心绞痛 (心絞痛) | xīn jiǎo tòng | angina |
| 绞盘 (絞盤) | jiǎo pán | capstan |
| 痛苦 | tòng kǔ | pain; suffering |
| 疼痛 | téng tòng | pain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt |
See also: Japanese symbol for “colic”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.